I've come to the end of the series of podcasts about the Digital Manifesto that Mike Jones posted on his blog, Digital Basin. That was earlier this summer and I try my best to explain why it's taken me long to post 5 podcasts.
Throughout the series I've been using his ideas in the Manifesto as a
guage to determine how current the curriculum at my school, the CDIA
is. It did very well - 9 out of 13. Here are the issues, numbered
according to the Manifesto followed by the episode they were reviewed
in.
Passed
Not Passed
These episodes were different from what I usually post, they involved
big ideas and how they fit into the world of filmmaking. Keeping the
idea threads connected from one episode to another, particularly when a
lot of time passed between was difficult. Time to think and understand
seems to be a constant problem for me.
For all the effort, I enjoyed exploring ideas and that took me to unfamiliar territory
Bear in mind, these aren't my ideas, I'm just having fun poking at them.
I thought of a couple of things to add to the manifesto:
Collaborative learning tools, such as blogs and wikis have a lot of
potential that I hope to explore for sharing ideas and information and
for promoting my work.
Towards the end of the episode I talk a little about how all this
technology is pushing against the boundaries of a stifling culture of
intellectual protectionism. If I sound a little harsh, it's only
because I've only recently come to recognize how limiting it is to
withhold access to resources that, if they were more available, would
result in a great deal more creativity to the benefit of everyone. I'm
sure once I get used to it I'll return to lamblike complacency.
